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Eunice Kim

Internationally known and celebrated, Seattle artist Eunice Kim's printmaking practice is marked by a singular commitment to safer, sustainable approach to art making. Having developed allergies early in her career to chemicals and solvents commonly used in traditional printmaking media, the artist embarked on an exploration in alternative processes in 2004.

For well over a decade, Kim has been producing work via a unique nontoxic collagraph process of her own invention. There are no caustic mordants employed in Kim's intaglio technique. Instead, the artist opts to laboriously form, shape, and polish each dot mark on her matrices - which she likens to miniature sculptures, entirely by hand manually and prints them in a solvent-free environment. The results are exquisitely lush and tactile works on paper found at the intersection of concept and process-driven imagery, innovative technique, and rigorous craft.

Born in Seoul, Korea and raised by her grandmother, the artist immigrated to the US at age ten. Kim's signature dot-based visual language is informed by formative experiences growing up in Korea, as well as memories and tendencies both cultural and personal. In artist's own words, the collagraphs are "studies in patterns and relationships, and in how individual entities come together, coalesce, and coexist." Now living and working in the quiet woods of Cascade Mountain foothills, the artist continues to be influenced by her immediate surroundings and environment, which serve as constant reminders of the beauty inherent in simplicity.

Kim has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad, including Austria, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, France, Korea, Poland, Spain, and United Kingdom. Most recently, she represented the US at Krakow International Print Triennial (2012), Vienna International Print Triennial (2013), and International Print Award Carmen Arozena in Madrid (2014). Kim is a recipient of numerous accolades, including 4Culture Individual Artist Project Grants, Arts Council for Long Beach Individual Artist Grant, Flemish Ministry of Culture Artist Residency Award, Kala Art Institute Fellowship Award, and The Puffin Foundation Artist Grant. Her works are found in public, corporate, and private collections worldwide.

In October 2015, Davidson Galleries proudly presented Eunice Kim: 2005-2015 Ten Year Survey, artist's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The special installation showcased select collagraphs highlighting the past decade of Kim's career and created a rare opportunity to take in her extensive repertoire of work in one comprehensive setting.

Featured works by: Eunice Kim

Korean-born, Seattle artist Eunice Kim is internationally known and celebrated for her signature dot-based imagery and singular commitment to sustainable printmaking. Deeply informed by her life in the Cascade Mountain foothills, Kim's newest series sources reclaimed wood as her material and inspiration. Working strictly with what nature provides, the artist finds and coaxes out narratives from aged grains, knots, cracks, and imperfections -- a process best described as "meditation on seeing." Printed entirely from actual specimens, artworks celebrate innate characteristics and intrinsic beauty of reclaimed timber through exquisite minimalist aesthetic straddling abstraction and realism.

Please note: Due to the artist's unique printing process, her editioned works (Five Elements, Porous) vary subtly between impressions. Please do not hesitate to contact us to see an image of exact impression we currently have.